When a party’s leader claims to “back the blue” but pardons or frees those who assaulted police, some party members may feel dissonance. How do they reduce that dissonance?

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a test used to detect mild cognitive decline and early signs of dementia. It can help identify people at risk of Alzheimer's disease and screen for ...

A course held entirely in English that offers students the knowledge and skills necessary for conducting research in the field of cognitive neuroscience through electrophysiological techniques, ...

Google Maps is one of the best (and most-used) navigation apps. It is preinstalled on most Android smartphones and is often the first app you open when navigating to a location. While Google has ...

One user told WIRED that Google Maps directed them to “drive right into a wall that’s been up since 2003.” Residents in the West Bank have long complained that missing and outdated data on ...

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has called for mandatory cognitive assessments for elected officials following reports that Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) was located in a memory care facility after a six ...

However, alongside the seemingly limitless capabilities of ChatGPT and friends, we find a less-discussed consequence: the gradual decline of human cognitive skills. Unlike earlier tools such as ...

We have known for a while that, in mammals, the hippocampus and surrounding regions store cognitive maps – stable representations of the environments we travel through. As it turns out ...

psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and philosophy. The department's mission is to unravel the mysteries of how we acquire, process, and utilize language, as well as to understand the ...

While "place cells" in the hippocampus mark specific locations, weaker spatial cells stitch these points into a comprehensive cognitive map.

Psychology is at work all around us, in surprising places, having a real impact that changes lives. Here, we curate a collection of articles and interviews from The Psychologist around that theme… ...